A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories
Featuring lecture and book signing with author Alia Malek
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Enterprise Hall, Room 80
Alia Malek is an author and civil rights lawyer. Born in Baltimore to Syrian immigrant parents, she began her legal career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. After working in the legal field in the U.S., Lebanon, and the West Bank, Malek, who has degrees from Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, earned her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her reportage has appeared in Salon, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The New York Times.
“In a beautifully rendered work, Alia Malek succeeds in a challenging task: restoring humanity to a community too long buffeted by the vagaries of chauvinism, bias and ignorance. Her book, written with wit, compassion and insight, is at once timeless, in its telling of immigrants in America, and unique, in its exploration of the diversity of the Arab-American community. In the end, A COUNTRY CALLED AMREEKA is a stirring story of humor, loss, love and triumph."
-Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
Visit Alia Malek's official website.
Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program, Islamic Studies Program, and Middle East Etc Film Club.
